This is a fancy pee divider from the 18th-century
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"Pass the piss pot, please"
tongue twister, eww :))
@@LeMacMacPlease don't twist your tongue around the piss pot.
"Piss boy!... Piss Boy!"
Say that 10 times fast😂
Nah...just pass the "pot", and keep on smoking!
Judging from the condition of that divider, a bunch of drunk "gentlemen" missed the damn pot and pissed all over that divider.
that's what it's for. otherwise they'd hit the partying gentlemen instead
Genuinely hurts me to see this.
Thats older than most peoples families. And its worth probably $25k or more. And they just use it as a piss splash.
According to the story that thing’s likely 500 years old, i don’t any of us will be looking any better at that point.
@@stellar783 around 200 not 500
@@zyourzgrandzmazit was probably worth way less when they splashed the pee on it
"As the women retired from the party..."
I just imagine them going "Oh, Bernadette, let's leave, they just brought out the piss pot."
They were actually supposed to leave to the withdrawing room (drawing room) right after dinner, before the brandy and cigars came out. They were having their own party with knitting and whatnot. Smoking, gambling and drinking around women was a huge no-no for men at the time.
@@asahearts1man where did those manners go?
@@MikaelaKMajorHistory Women got offended that men treated them special.
@@MikaelaKMajorHistorylmao 😅😂
@@MikaelaKMajorHistoryI want to smoke cigarettes,drink alcohol and party.
Well this explains the saying..." I ain't got a pot to piss in, or a window to throw it out of"..😂
That's the full saying? I only ever heard the start of it! Really cool!
AIN'T IT JUST AIN'T IT 😜 lols
Just put it up, and then this comes up!
I think I’m going to head to the Vomitorium!
Yup - people used to empty their chamber pots (piss pots for the bedroom) by just pouring it out the window, onto sidewalks/streets where people just passed by like it was nothing 🤢🤮
I've literally never heard anyone ever say that, but maybe I'm just foreign lol.
"Only real homies share a piss pot"
“I’ll sip crys. You’ll drink piss.”
I wonder why women live longer...
Bro bar floors are nastier when when it gets to closing time somehow y’all still miss something twice the size of a pot
Hard to hit when you are drunk
Everyone gets mobility fucked up when they’re drunk but every few people get that bravery juice I’m them and makes them not give a fuck and you saying that makes me think your a floor pee’er because can’t be me when the floor is like that I pee behind the dumpster with a nudy magazine like everyone else
@@josephfelix7451no one likes a floor pee er
@@josephfelix7451 we get it you sit down to pee when your drunk
Have you ever had to clean the woman’s bathroom after a night out, because I’ll tell you, it’s just as nasty
"Piss the please pot, pass"
😆
“Plass the poss plit, peas… and the brandy!”
Pliss pot the pass...
There was an old saying about outhouses. They're too close in the summer, and too far in the winter. Meaning in the heat they would kick up some stink, and in the cold it was to far away from the house.
Just make 2
@@alclay8689That’s not such a bad idea, the closer one wouldn’t stink so bad in the winter, then switch to the other in the summer. I’m sure some must’ve done that.
I'm not sure what someone who can spend a night passing around a steamy communal piss pot would classify as stink.
@mnk9073 The piss pot would probably be emptied multiple times in the evening, but in general a pot of fresh piss will smell a lot less than a few days/weeks/months worth accumulation of piss and shite you'd find in the outhouse.
@@mnk9073The servants had to empty the chamber pot throughout the night.
Too many of those pots have come to become the favorite family heirlooms and used as gravy bowls by subsequent generations who had no idea to their original purpose. Still happens today.
EW, come on dude, I just had my gravy chicken for lunch😢
The ones that look like gravy boats were for the ladies.
@@aprizalrusmana8940 Yeah well try being the only person at a Thanksgiving dinner who knows.
@@michaelfoye1135 U uh, no thanks, I'm good. *Leave house🏃
@@aprizalrusmana8940 Oh but it's the first time you are meeting your fiance's family. No exit.
My great great grandma has an outhouse. She kept a pee pot in a kitchen chair by the back door so if you had to go in the middle of the night you just used it and she’d give it a sling out into the back yard. I was blessed to have her till I was 15. I’ve used the pee pot and the outhouse. She lived right beside my great grandparents. When I got married we bought my great grandparents old home. My great great grandmas house had been torn down many years before that but the old outhouse was still there. After a few years we finally tore it down.
My Grandma kept her out house I had to use it ... She lived on a hill in Virginia...it was a challenge in the winter hard to walk up hill in the snow but a quick return to the house sometime sliding past the house. ❤
The pot aka commode.
@@bettyh3747 Did you know a commode was actually a set of (dresser) drawers that held the chamber pot? And then that evolved into a wooden chair that held the chamber pot?
Both are technically a commode
I remember when I was a child and we visited my grandfathers brother. He was a fat, foul mouthed man with trophies and a shotgun on the wall. When I needed to pee, he offered a piss pot from a cabinet under his kitchen sink. I'll never forget the embarrasment or the smell.
When my mom was born, her father decided it was time for an outhouse.
I just can’t imagine what they did before.
Someone, somewhere, sometime took a swig of the piss pot for sure
Hey Bartholemew, i proposition that you take one swig of the piss pot in exchange for two of my finest cattle. The good Lord knows you’d never do it…
OH haha, he actually did it. My apologies Sir Bartholomew I made the proposition only in jest, there are no cattle awaiting you. However good friend, we will never let you forget this amusing blunder
It’s probably a lot more than just one person
This is the ruling class so...yeah I'd be amazed if there weren't some dudes into humiliation and piss play.
Yes ole’ Sir pissy pisserton
Someone very drunk have definitely done this
Never knew that's where "not a pot to piss in" came from!
Not really. The term not a pot to piss in was meant for people who were beyond poor, like destitute. people who had no money would collect the family pee in a pot to sell it to tannerys which would get them a little money. These people were called piss poor. People who we worse off than that didn't even have a pot to piss in.
Yep. It refers to being poor. My grandmother said, "He doesn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of."
It’s actually not. It refers to the poor being so poor they couldn’t even collect their urine to sell to the tannery.
@@jenniferlee4893Who tf sells their piss?
@@vikingmama93, Correct, but it is "....nor a window to throw it out of. "
They gotten so drunk, they started challenging each other to drink from the pot.
Hey hey hey hey hey... drink from the piss pot for five *hiccup* seconds 🥴
They weren't American.
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry so non Americans don't challenge each other to do stupid stuff??
@@Milkybetrayal But of course. However, that does sound like rather uniquely American, "stupid stuff".
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry shenanigans then it's all the same when drunkards get together
Okay. But 18th century male attire looks FIRE 🔥
Agreed!
Fr
The little jigs 🕺🏻 sold it
Looked good, was rarely washed.
@@m.c.3640didn't need to be, the outer garments rarely if ever touched skin. The inner linen garments were changed at least once daily if not more, and washed very regularly. Also linen has some natural antibacterial properties. People "back then" didn't like bad smells or dirty skin any more than we do today. They just had different hygienic practices to achieve cleanliness, since running water and indoor plumbing weren't typical.
"Shall we gather for whiskey, cigars and piss dividers?"
-some guard in Dishonored
The graphics for this short are hilarious. lol
The ladies "retiring" for the evening really just went to their own party lol
And loosen up their corsets and have pleasant conversation in the absence of the male drunken noise
Yes and they obviously needed to retire to a use pot too!
No they didn't. A lady party back then would be just sitting around and talking over tea. A lot was demanded of upper class women so they couldn't always have as much fun as the men. But if you're a lower class woman then no one cares if you stay up and keep drinking with the men!
Wait really? Like I know that they def didnt just sit down and wait but still
@@angelwhispers2060yes the women were all intelligent saints and the men all stupid animals
"Oh, dear Sir Charles, would you be so kind as to pass the urination cauldron in my direction. I fear I have drunken far too much brandy for today."
"Here ya go sir repulsive"
"guhrn ,, brte mmthe pott"
“Oh why yes thank you kind sir you are such a gentleman- OH CRAP I have appeared to accidentally pee all over your shoes sir let me just clean that for you- *gets slapped and is forced to lick the shoes to clean them while everyone else parties more.”
In the 1920s my mother used to play quietly but with ears flapping when her mothers friends dropped by for a cup of tea. They lived in Stepney where a lot of the women worked in the kitchens and laundries etc. of the big houses. She learned stuff that she didnt understsnd for years but odd phrases stuck in her.mind. she learned that lady x was known to be fond of mr y so they were put in rooms with adjoing doors. Also that "they've got the morals of rabbits'. And 'They forget. We wash their sheets'. The meaning of that remark evaded her till she marriex. 🤭
That was a fun read 😊 “They’ve got the morals of rabbits 🐇” 😂
''Why is there a gigantic floater in the piss pot?''
"Dost thou needeth empty thine bladder, Johnathan?"
"Aye, I must alleviate the mighty serpent ere he drowns in the yellow sea. I shall depart to yonder outhouse for but a moment."
"Nonsense! Simply avail thyself of hither piss pot!" *_slides it across the table messily_*
Haha! I absolutely pictured this exact scene occuring while I read your comment!
The last line Is an excellent visual, I think!!!😂
@@joshroolf1966 Just imagine the swish of the piss tip just past the edge from sliding across the table, spilling "yellow sea" ever so slightly
@@ladybugjess272😂😂😂😂
Just splashing that ole yellow sauce around. 😬🤢
"All sloshed up and nary a pot to piss in"
"Bougie piss divider" 😂
Lol! I didn't realise the word "bougie" was still in use.😅
Which’s a terrible adjective. Those people were the nobility, not the bourgeoisie, which were not yet the ruling class.
@@felipevasconcelos6736the terrible part is why it’s a terrible adjective. The original meaning of “bougie” was “middle class.” Unfortunately, due to real wages dropping over the past fifty years, what was once considered middle class or even lower middle class* is now considered upper middle class, hence “Bougie.”
*The classic example given is Homer Simpson, who married his high school sweetheart, has three children, a stay-at-home wife, owns a house, and takes multiple vacations per year, all on the single income of a technical job he has had for years, and which he got without a college degree. In 1987 he was considered a middle class or even lower middle class loser, but today there are people earning six figures who don’t live so well, and the vast majority of Americans cannot even aspire to such a lifestyle. Hence what was once merely bourgeois has now become “Bougie.”
@@isaackellogg3493 the meaning of “bougie” (or “bourgeois”, which “bougie” is short for) as “middle class” is not its original one, and is in fact quite recent.
The bourgeoisie was, in the Early Modern period, the merchant class, which could include very rich and very poor ones, but notedly did not include nobles, which were in a higher class. After the Industrial Revolution, the people who owned factories (who were the bourgeoisie, as they were generally not nobles or clergy members) became much more influential in society, eventually becoming the dominant class.
Until this day, the bourgeoisie remain the ruling class, not because of how much they make, but because by owning the means of production they control many aspects of society. Homer was never a bourgeois, because he is employed by someone who owns the means of production. Nowadays he is comparatively quite well off, but his situation fundamentally hasn’t changed.
@@felipevasconcelos6736 Ah I see
The writers of "What We Do In the Shadows" taking notes.
A lot of antique sideboards will still have a lead or copper-lined drawer or cupboard where the pisspot was kept. The metal lining kept the ammonia fumes from ruining the wood. But, before judging, think about walking through snow or rain 100 feet every time you have to pee!
That's what they had servants for. 😵💫
Huge problem at Versailles, too! During the 17th and 18th centuries, people complained that whole hallways reeked of urine.
(Editing to include the 18th century as well.)
Well they had tourists too. And I don't think the tourists were allowed to use the pots.
Kimmster you ever visit the brick tavern in roslyn 😅??
@PC Bassoon They didn't have tourists then. Well, I suppose you could call visiting nobility a kind of tourist.
Versailles did not exist yet in the 16th century. It was built by Louis XIV in the 17th. And yes, there were no bathrooms. High ranking courtiers and the Royal family that had private apartments in Versailles had pisspots and commode chairs, but that was it. The rest, including the servants, had to relieve themselves where they could.
@Myriam Ickx Ugh, I meant to say 1600s. Thank you so much! I've corrected my entry. Sad to say, though, since I have a book on Versailles on my shelf. LoL
I worked as a bartender back in the days, and I can tell you, when it gets around 4-5 am, just pi$$ing on the floor is still the preferred method of relieving yourself for many guys.
I bartended in the early 2000's and never seen a college bro or biker piss in the corner. Outside, yeah, but nothing like that 🙁
@@vikkilooper4075 lucky you 😅 I have to say tho, it was a night club and our clientele was more like "Jersey Shore" people... 😬
as if the women are any better! Good ol security cameras allowed us to security to play the betting game of 'is she picking her thong out of her ass or moving it aside to drop a turd on the floor?'
@@TchikaEven animals have the decency to pick a corner. Disgusting
Well better on the floor than directly at the bar maid. Or the glass that you have handle into the washing machine 😅
Jeez, guys miss when they're sober. Have you seen a bar urinal when they're drunk. I bet the floor was like a paddling pool
Not if the pot is in a good place, like on a stool (the furniture) or table.
@@pistonburner6448 They’d still miss..
@@LauraBidingCitizen Maybe the ill-equipped miscreants you associate with. Or maybe you gave them something which damaged their junk
We don't miss we just don't know which way the stream will point
At best it's a guess......
@@carmadme lol that’s why you hold on. Or sit.
Hey, bro, I need to use your bathroom. Where's it at?
*Slides pot across table*
Could have gone my whole life without needing to know that.
You're the type of guy who would chug the piss pot.
Fr! 💀😱🤣♥️♥️♥️
The lady's "retiring" for the night is just them going to their own area to play their own cards
Probably ran away from the piss party 😂😂😂
I mean the type of men who aren’t going to lead women party with them really aren’t not to be partied with. Probably more fun and less piss all around
@@addyshorhnr3544 please use punctuation because I can't fully understand what you mean by this.
And they've got their own piss pots 😂
@@hysteriasfireThe irony is that you have a punctuation error in your OP...
Lord, I can imagine the stench of things back then, let alone a pee divider/pot 🤢
That's why the ladies "retired for the night."
Cities still smell like piss and sewage
I’m sure the grounds smelled like urine & feces from when the servants emptied the King’s (and everyone else’s) pot in the garden ponds and the Seine River was probably full of sewage as well!! 🤢
Add to this the lack of deodorant, the fact that a lot of clothes weren't designed to be washed, the unwashed vermin infested wigs, horseshit over the whole courtyard and streets, open sewers etc. I never understand why people think the past is romantic.
Why would you want to be shot into the past like in Outlander or live in a mediaeval fantasy world???
And as a woman no santitary supplies.
Medicine was in its infancy in 18th century.
No antibiotics until about the 1940s...
The cigar smoke and drunkenness make it bearable apparently lol
“Piss piss pass, bro.”
Or pass pass piss
Underrated comment lol
That's obviously how puff puff pass became a thing! 😂😂
If I’m super rich I’m peeing alone, not with a bunch of bros 😂
If?! 😮 What are you doing now?
Bathroom in every room and someone to empty it out every turn
Damn, here I am partying with my boys in the backyard and there's the designated piss corner. We high class
I just realized why I like camping so much 😂 never have to “leave” the party
Rightttt. The outdoor toilets at a camp are the most vile things ever. My god
Wait what do you MEAN LOL
So funny to piss on the other tent's, hearing them talk about the rain ☔
@@UmuPadoru I ment peeing outside? Not every campsite has “outdoor toilets” in alaska 🤔
@@UmuPadoru One of the funniest things ive read in a while.
Imagine mistaking it for tea 💀
Sluuuuurp Mmm tasty😅😂😂
I bet you'd drink it and like it.
It's alright, they taste the same
Lmao the piss pot rotation
That was my thought. In fact my 1st thought was that that the divider was, as a matter of fact, the pot itself.
Every single fact makes me grateful that I live in the contemporary rather than the past 😅
Love your pfp (rip one of my earliest beloved fandoms)
Humans have never ducking changed at all in any way and I love that
We are just big brained gorillas after all.
Men*
@@Jay-vz7ogHumans*
At some later point in history: ‘my fellow, discard the piss-divider. You are frightening the wenches’
Sorry dude, I worked there for 10+ years & it's just a restaurant. One of the nicest in Edinburgh, but still just a restaurant. It was opened in the late 80s/90s buy a man called James Thompson. It's split into 2 parts. Ground level at the front is The Witchery & downstairs at the back is the secret garden, which is the most beautiful part, exclusively candle lit at night. They also have 5/6 stunning period themed rooms to stay the night. Look it up.
the history lesson about piss pots and the restaurant are barely connected it’s just a segway into the topic
cool learning about the pic from the first slide tho
I have a feeling this video is about long ago history.
It’s a restaurant that occupies a 16th century building so actually nothing he said was wrong. It may have become a restaurant in 1979 but it’s been around far longer, built in 1595. Didn’t learn much in the decade you worked there.
Ooop! 😂😂😂
Instead of “puff, puff, pass” by the end of the night it’s “piss, piss, pass”!
Must be where, "You don't got a pot to piss in," comes from.
Nope, it’s not
No, these people are wealthy
"thanks for the beer bro"
it's all fun and games until someone took a shit in it.
As a docent at our museum I told the other docents that men did that back then. They didn't believe me.
Without a pot to piss in - suddenly it makes sense! lol
when the function has a piss distribution mechanism
If they really wanted to have a crazy party, they'd have used neither pot nor divider
That was some hilarious editing
The ladies probably retired early to go and be with real gentlemen. 😊
“I beseech thee to hand over the piss cistern good sir”
If my high school history teacher presented the lessons like this narrator, I'd have skipped my nap to actually pay attention.
This reminded me how the Palace of Versailles had no bathrooms
Then, the servants would clean it and use it for porridge the next morning. Piss pot porridge.
Yep 😂
Wait SERIOUSLY?? No just HELL no
Some like it hot, some like it cold, some point it in the pot nine days old!
@@ytallowskids2seedepravityb219 It's a play on the Pease Porridge rhyme
If you're down with old pee pee..
Wow, I thought I was slightly above average economically, but I ain’t even got a pot to piss in!
Finally have a chance to use that expression in context!
“no got a pot to piss in” 😂👍🏽🏴
"Here's a fancy piss divider."
* camera pans over the thing and zig-zags at mach 1 *
Just what I need a fancy piss divider!! 😂😂😂🤠👍
oh my gosh, passing the piss pot around the table 🤣 that's great 😅
Ah yes, very sophisticated people.
This gives new meaning to “he ain’t got a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out.”
Brings the expression "a pot to piss in"to a whole new level 😉
“Aww man I don’t wanna leave the party to piss, let me do it in front of my homies.”
Just people living their authentic selves.
You could not pay me to smell that divider
When there's a tornado so you have to stay in the gym locker room:
Keeping those tapeworms away 😂
Dudes knew how to live back then.
What they knew was how to die of lung cancer, liver failure, and syphilis while smelling of a latrine. If you work at it, you can manage three out of four.
@@Amaranthyne Yeesh, you're a hostile person aren't you? Go soak your head, you need to cool off.
@@Amaranthyneonly 3?
@@Chef_Alpo Syphillis is practically extinct, however, there are a whole host of other STDs to contract out there, so you could manage an “honorary” fourth.
autism fr
Sounds like me and my dad drinking together. My sister used to get really annoyed when we would piss off the patio into the back garden 😂
Had a boss that was VERY finicky. He went to his wife’s family’s reunion in Missouri and wouldn’t stop talking about the guys around the keg that night going into the trees to pee.
“they had a perfectly good bathroom inside!”
Dude was so out of touch
It's because of the stench, it accumulates. If you go to the areas where the homeless hang out it usually smells like piss.
@@twocyclediesel1280 more like dignified.
@@kianvalizadeh8033 Definitely not dignified, just very finicky.
@@twocyclediesel1280why would they piss in the woods when they have a bathroom? That's unhygienic
New Marvel villain Piss Pot Pete. If you know, you know.😅
I guess that's where the saying comes from: "you don't have a pot to pass in nor a window to throw it out of!"
Passing the piss pot round the table is just something us bros do without question. Especially with the homies
"yo pass me the piss bowl"
"Upper class" 😂
Upper class did what they wanted. It's the middle class that is so insecure & afraid of slipping down the ladder that rigidly followed the etiquette books
@@thecook8964true in many cases, but it is often the upper class that fails to properly due it’s part in the socio-governmental system, while enabling cartels of bankers/industrialists. (For example: “The RevoIution” as they called the Coup of 1688, w/ the Crown creating/seIIing out to the cartel that is the BoE, Franklin stated that entity led to the prohibition of Colonial Script & caused the American Rev, modern day examples of 120+ years of unnecessary wars, including Wilson regretting his actions w/ The Fed, and in history (recent & old) of countless nations (factionalism & greed from the US to Africa to Europe & Mod-East); Polish & Belrus/Lith nobles (Derzhavin wiki) & also Ruzzian nobles/leading classes failing to do their part (absent, apathetic, failing to hand issues (I.e. Derz wiki)).
Imagine being the guy that loses the piss pot
Imagine being the guy who broke it. Appears it was a ceramic container.
Them dancing & the house shaking 🎶 makes me giggle more than it should 🤭
But when I piss in the pot it's "Who invited Steve again!?!"
"dont Bogart that piss pot my friend"
😂😂😂😂
Great restaurant, a must visit when in Edinburgh
“why is the cheese in the pot piss?”
That piss container should have a cover. Imagine the scent.
I guess they are so drunk, they dont care anymore 😂
two of my mom's fave expressions:
"You haven't got a pot to piss in!" and "piss pot". 😭😂
How do you know the piss pot was passed around the table?
personal experience i guess
Maybe from personal journals written in that era.
Bro why is this video so stressful to watch?
How nasty😢!!
This so charming how you collaged all the lovely pictorial elements into a smash video! You won an admirer here. And the cultural story is so …. deep? 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
I heard at Versailles people would piss on the walls and tapestries in the hallways and stairwells.
Sound like those were fun times. We should totally bring that back 😁
You want social peeing?
What about a poop bucket?
It all goes in the same pot dear
Or depending on what was on the menu they might need something considerably larger...hence the name "dump truck" 💩 🚚
Brilliant! Why have we forgotten this inspired invention?! (The video itself is edited in a very unpleasant way. And I'm not old either, so that's now why I think that)
Gives you motion sickness 😅
“They’d just pass the piss pot round the table”… there’s a sentence I could have done without lol
I didn't think I'd ever hear someone say "pass the piss pot round the table"
Sometimes we can learn important stuff from history, lets take notes boys.
I think we have all used these a time a two.
We're not like you. You are a real human person. We are real human beings. Do you recall the hospital you were brought into this Earth in?
Gay.
The tiny dancers crack me up.
Been there numerous times. Besides dining, The Witchery also has a small number of suites available if staying overnight in the city.